 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1891 - 552 pages
...thoroughly worked out. § 19. One great difficulty is the utter absence of a dictionary of the language. I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land...even a vocabulary, of this highly important language. There is, indeed, a poor production entitled Kelham's Norman Dictionary, printed in London in 1779;... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1891 - 570 pages
...thoroughly worked out. § 19. One great difncultvj«-ihe utter absence of a dictionary of the language./ I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land...even a vocabulary, of this highly important language. There is, indeed, a poor production entitled Kelham's Norman Dictionary, printed in London in 1779;... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1891 - 554 pages
...thoroughly, worked out. § 18. One great difficulty is the utter absence of a dictionary of the language. I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land...even a vocabulary, of this highly important language. There is, indeed, a poor production entitled Kelham's Norman Dictionary, printed in London in 1779;... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1891 - 594 pages
...thoroughly worked out. § 19. One great difficulty is the utter absence of a dictionary of the language. I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land...years, than the fact that no one has yet taken in band to make a reasonably useful dictionary, or even a vocabulary, of this highly important language.... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Courts - 1917 - 320 pages
...Historical Material stand by themselves. Of this class of our authorities Professor Skeat says : " I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land...eight hundred years, than the fact that no one has taken in hand to make a reasonably useful dictionary or even a vocabulary of this highly important... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Courts - 1917 - 324 pages
...of Historical Material stand by themselves. Of this class of our authorities Professor Skeat says : "I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land...eight hundred years, than the fact that no one has taken in hand to make a reasonably useful dictionary or even a vocabulary of this highly important... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Courts - 1917 - 316 pages
...Historical Material stand by themselves. Of this class of our authorities Professor Skeat says : " I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land...eight hundred years, than the fact that no one has taken in har p make a reasonably useful dictionary or ev vocabulary of this highly important langui... | |
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I know of nothing more disgraceful to such a land as England, the lawyers of which have made more or less use of Anglo-French for some eight hundred years, than the fact that no one has yet taken in hand to make a reasonably useful dictionary, or even... 